Public Facade Quotes

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at.

You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

I love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the public part, and then you just walk through one door marked "Staff Only" and you're in a different universe.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.